Encouraging Tribal Community Crash Reporting

The American Indian population is at high risk for motor vehicle (MV) crash injury. Although preventable, a majority of these indigenous populations lack fundamental data needed to understand these events and effective countermeasures. This cross-case study sets a framework for exploring Indian Nations’ crash reporting systems in an effort to fill this information void. An inventory process and experience gained in working with four tribes produced a pragmatic approach that tribes can refine based on objectives with regard to accountability, sovereignty, and system integrity. Enormous benefits can be derived from a crash reporting system that holds essential, non-personally identifiable information. The study shows that electronically documenting MV crash event data is plausible with commitment from tribes and support from other stakeholders.

• Record URL:
  • https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=1060
• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/61627
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

  North Dakota State University
  1320 Albrecht Boulevard
  Fargo, ND  United States  581052

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Vachal, Kimberly
• Publication Date: 2020-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 43p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash reports; Data collection; Indian reservations; Native Americans; Traffic crashes
• Geographic Terms: North Dakota
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01844438
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC-20-414
• Contract Numbers: MPC-518
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 28 2022 4:43PM